New English Translation
Ezekiel 4:10
10The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times.
Ezekiel 4:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.
- New International Version (NIV)Weigh out twenty shekels of food to eat each day and eat it at set times.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And your food that you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from day to day you shall eat it.
- New King James Version (NKJV)And your food which you eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day; from time to time you shall eat it.
Context of Ezekiel 4:10
8Look here, I will tie you up with ropes, so you cannot turn from one side to the other until you complete the days of your siege. 9“As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side – 390 days – you will eat it. The food you eat will be eight ounces a day by weight; you must eat it at fixed times. 11And you must drink water by measure, a pint and a half; you must drink it at fixed times. 12And you must eat the food like you would a barley cake. You must bake it in front of them over a fire made with dried human excrement.”
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וּמַאֲכָֽלְךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תֹּאכֲלֶ֔נּוּ בְּמִשְׁק֕וֹל עֶשְׂרִ֥ים שֶׁ֖קֶל לַיּ֑וֹם מֵעֵ֥ת עַד־עֵ֖ת תֹּאכֲלֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Ezekiel 4:10
- Ezekiel 4:16Then he said to me, “Son of man, I am about to remove the bread supply in Jerusalem. They will eat their bread ration anxiously, and they will drink their water ration in terror
- Ezekiel 14:13“Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.
- Leviticus 26:26When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.
- Deuteronomy 28:51They will devour the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your soil until you are destroyed. They will not leave you with any grain, new wine, olive oil, calves of your herds, or lambs of your flocks until they have destroyed you.
- Isaiah 3:1Look, the sovereign Lord who commands armies is about to remove from Jerusalem and Judah every source of security, including all the food and water,
Commentaries on Ezekiel 4:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Twenty shekels a day - The whole of the above grain, being ground, was to be formed into one mass, out of which he was to make three hundred and ninety loaves; one loaf for each day; and this loaf was to be of twenty shekels in weight. Now a shekel, being in weight about half an ounce, this would be ten ounces of bread for each day; and with this water to the amount of one sixth part of a hin, which is about a pint and a half of our measure. All this…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10meat - A general term for food, which in this case consists of grain. Instead of measuring, it was necessary in extreme scarcity to weigh it Leviticus 26:26; Revelation 6:6. Twenty shekels a day - The shekel contained about 220 grains, so that 20 shekels would be about 56 of a pound. From time to time - Thou shalt receive and eat it at the appointed interval of a day.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-17Verses 9-17 The bread which was Ezekiel's support, was to be made of coarse grain and pulse mixed together, seldom used except in times of urgent scarcity, and of this he was only to take a small quantity. Thus was figured the extremity to which the Jews were to be reduced during the siege and captivity. Ezekiel does not plead, Lord, from my youth I have been brought up delicately, and never used to any thing like this; but that he had been brought up…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-17The near-starvation diet of eight ounces of food and a jar of water each day represents siege rations. This reflects a desperate situation where there was not enough of any one type of grain to make a whole loaf.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. twenty shekels--that is, little more than ten ounces; a scant measure to sustain life (Jr 52:6). But it applies not only to the siege, but to their whole subsequent state.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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